Choosing a tenant can be fraught with uncertainties, because unsatisfactory lessees may conceal the truth. We hope they will pay regularly, care for the property, and return it in good condition when the lease ends. Clearing a tenant hoarder house can be a frustrating … [Read more...]
When a Friend Has Hoarding Disorder
When a friend has hoarding disorder, what does this mean? You have been patient about the state of their home, but now the place is becoming unsafe. Your friend has a mental condition that drives them to keep on saving things. To them this feels normal, although we do … [Read more...]
Managed Hoarding House Clearance In Six Steps
Your first visit to a hoarded house can be a real eye-opener, if you believe in neat and tidy homes. If you have a first visit coming up, prepare for chaos you may not believe. Especially if this has been ongoing for years. A professionally managed hoarding house … [Read more...]
How To Discuss Hoarding With Hoarders
Conversations with new clients often provoke an exasperated comment, ‘I don't know how to discuss hoarding with them’. This is often because the two parties are not on the same page. Our decades of experience has taught us that hoarders take a firm stance, and don’t … [Read more...]
Hoarding House Clearance Costs and Extras
A hoarding house is a work in progress, as opposed to the hoarded homes some senior citizens leave behind. Both types accumulate a surprising amount of clutter as the years pass by. It may we unwise to summarily do a hoarding house clearance, though. That’s because … [Read more...]
Cleaning a Hoarder’s Home
If you have a friend or family member who is also a hoarder, then the time may come when their home needs a good clean. This may follow moving them to a place of safety, or after someone else helped them tidy up. Cleaning a hoarder’s home is not for the faint-hearted, … [Read more...]
Self-Neglect, Hoarding and Adult Care
It’s never easy to try to help an adult hoarder restore some order to their home. We have cleared enough of these homes down these years to wonder whether an earlier intervention might have helped. We came across guidelines from Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea … [Read more...]
We View Compulsive Hoarding through a Social Science Lens
Do you know of a person who collects so much stuff they can’t use a room in their home for its regular purpose? Well then, they might touch first base as a compulsive hoarder. Although there are other boxes we need to tick when we view compulsive hoarding through a … [Read more...]
Extreme Hoarding – 25 Years Of Compulsive Hoarding In London Property
Hoarding in London is now worse than ever as tv programme "buried alive" brings hoarders situations out into the open and a brief video of a recent hoarder house clearance we carried out can be seen by following this link to YouTube, take a look at a hoarders house from … [Read more...]
